I Might Destroy You‘s Weruche Opia has been nominated within the supporting actress class on the BAFTA TV Awards for her position as Terry Pratchard.

Michaela Coel’s 2020 sequence was groundbreaking and heartbreaking, with viewers declaring it to be a “masterpiece”, and Opia has appeared again on how she looks like her character was vital in exhibiting a unique facet of Black girls on display screen.

Talking to Digital Spy and different press, the actress mentioned: “Terry positively is not that stereotypical Black woman state of affairs that everybody appears to need to see on tv.

“There are a lot of extra faces to Black girls, so I used to be very completely happy to have Terry, who was a fleshed out character, doing what I do know as properly, being an actor, being a younger Black girl in London. So I used to be very completely happy to have a personality like Terry to permit me to indicate my vary.

“And naturally, the truth that she goes by way of all these conditions. We see her dealing with microaggressions as an actor within the business, which is frequent apply. I am hoping it is altering, that we’ll get there.

“It was fascinating to play that, and the opposite components of her, coping with the trauma, the sexual assault. However I did get pleasure from taking part in her and a unique facet of Black girls that we not often see on TV lately within the UK.”

The BAFTA TV Awards takes place on Sunday, June 6.

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